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Saturday, January 16, 2016

More Whoosh - Episode 360 - The Knitmore Girls

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Andrew has been wearing his cashmere hat, and Sam wore the grey beanie.Contest:(24:55)

Our annual Do Some Good Contest :Do some good on a local, national or global level, post it to the thread, maybe you'll win a
prize! But you'll definitely do some good, and that's awesome. The
contest will close around January 6th.Winners will be chosen on the basis
of originality and delightfulness. Also, your charity needs to benefit more than your immediate friends and family.

Do Some Good prizes:A Lolo Foot bara very big Erin Lane bag, and a Leslie Wind cable needle ringContest will wrap up next week.Winners will be announced in episode 361__________________________________________________________________

Grinchalong:
We announced winners today

Prizes!:

- A Lolo Foot Bar
- An Erin Lane bag
- A skein of CephalopodTraveller
- a Leslie Wind cable needle ring
- a skein of sock yarn in the "Board Shorts" colorway, by Julianna's Fibre.
- Grinchy knitting bags sewn in the "Sweatshop Of Love"(Lovingly purloined from Sweatshop Of Love) by the Knitmore Girls out of Grinchy fabric.
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Parameters for participating in the #operationsockdrawer contest:

Participants: post a picture to the ravelry forum, or to instagram with the #operationsockdrawer,
have your ravelry name on your instagram profile. Feel free to double
dip your projects.

Projects will be judged on originality and general delightfulness.
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This week we answer questions from the "What do you want to hear about?" thread in the forum
about yarn bombing and applying Lolo bars.
Gigi mentions Die Urbane Spinnstube.

When Knitting Attacks:(38:06)

Gigi's cowl out of mistery batt got bound off to tight, so she tinked and bound off again. She bound off looser, and won Yarn Chicken.

She dropped a stitch on her Shades of Grey sock and then had to go back and crochet up the dropped stitch.

She also frogged back quite a bit on the 1000 Tulips shawl, it was too short and needs another pattern repeat.

She is talking about Whorlicity vs Point of Inertia, asking whether people would prefer scientific terms or fiber terms. Also, if you have a better sounding word or phrase, suggest it! The term that everyone is searching for is a word that describes how long a spindle turns. And Sew On:(57:17)

Gigi basted a pair of jeans, for Sam in order to shorten them. Also, she wants to keep the original hem in place, since original hems on jeans have too many layers for a home sewing machine. She says she has seen this technique all over Pinterest.

2 comments:

Hello ladies! Long time listener recently returning to regular stitch habits. It was a thrill to hear you speaking so highly of my favorite designer Woolly Wormhead. Congrats Jasmin on finishing your WW sideways hat! I thought you'd want to know that several of us are doing a 12 in 16 knit a long to make 1 WW hat per month. Would love to have you join us!!

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